The pool portion of the Rescue class is going to help lay the ground work for what you will be doing on the Open Water dives.
Couple tips:
1. Learn the concept of the skill in the pool. For example, a search pattern in a pool is trivial since the water is clear, but make sure you are doing the actual pattern correctly.
2. We removing gear from yourself or the victim, do one thing at a time. Don't try to undo the low snap, and the velcro, and the shoulder staps, and push the tank away all at once. Breath, low snap, breath, velcro, breath, shoulder, breath, shoulder, breath, push the gear, breath, clear the gear, breath, etc.
3. Remember you breathe on 5 not start moving into position on 5. I found that I move into position on 3 to be able to breathe on 5. This goes back to #2, that you only have 2 seconds to really do something between breaths.
4. Grab a watch or clock, and actually get your pattern down for a 5 second count. Many students actaully warp time and make a five second count last three seconds.
5. I demonstrate the surfacing skill three times. I reposition the victim each time to the students get a different view of the technique each time. When I first started teaching rescue, I found that the blocked view items were actaully important.
6. If you get to play an aggressive, panic diver, don't hurt the other person, but be agressive. Aim for the shoulders instead of the face.
